Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1887-12-01
Interesting Letter from A, G. C.
CAMDEN. o. NoY. %. IS,

- S"N0AN VIZ
on one of those gentle C) "nor'westerlies'
that set in yesterday they would reach
you about the time l expect this letter to
reach the Office. We have had but little
rain since August and the outlook is dis
tressing. Fruit was a practical failure
here. Apples are being shipped here
from Michigan and sold at 80 cents per
peck and in larger quantities at from
$1.75to $500 per barrel. The potato
crop is so per cent. short and the pre-
cious tubers find a ready sale at $1.25 per
bushel. Garden vegetables were cut
short by the drouth and are scarce at any
price. The early frosts damaged stand.
ing tobacco in the Miami valley alone
more than $40, 900 and when it is con
sidered that many poor families had their
living in this crop the loss will be heavy
indeed. q.
The autumn has been fine and, happily,
everything is in pretty good condition for
the driving blasts which are now upon
us and furnish unmistakable signs of a
long and pinching winter. Our water
supplies are decreasing every day and
unless we have rain soon our situation
will be perilous in the extreme. Already
a malignant form of typhoid fever in
sections of this state and eastern Indiana
is ascribed to scarcity Of water and the
unusually rare atmosphere.
We are situated between Eaton and
Camden and can see the lights from both
towns, which gives an opportunity of de-
Gliding upon the merits of electricity and
natural gas for lighting purposes.
Either makes a good Office light but for
street illumination both are failures un,
less freely used. Camden has three gas
wells all gushing the vapor at a lively
rate. Yesterday | betook myself to a
large clothing house which has a gas
stove and drew my wraps for a good
warm at natures own furnace but what
was my CONSERVATION a few moments
later to see the clerk literally cover the
pipe with wood and then blow and curse
the Gas meter. Hal hal said |, you'll
run some gas up to Eaton l presume or
invite them down to warm at your gas
Stoves ''Our gas takes spells like their
dynamo machine did the other night
during the thunder shower-go out
during their services and leave the PEG.
pie to grope their way in ebon darkness"
One noticeable feature of this country
is a concentration of all kinds of indus.
tries TO the towns and cities. | have not
seen a country store or post Office in the
state and but few grist mills. There are
but few churches out in the country and
most of them are practically deserted.
This was more noticeable in portions of
Indiana | visited than here.
Republicans are feeling good over their
late elections and although not especially
hopeful of Sherman's nomination would
take it as God-send for the inhuman
treatment their gallant governor received
at the hands of pretty Mrs. Cleveland,
and in fact, the President may yet have
occasion to regret his midnight ride on
the FOWL car" through the beautiful
country of Foraker and Garfield.
The anarchists were executed and Gov.
Oglesby of Ohio, as the H. AND T. I'M
Intentional has it did not interfere.
Ohio claims a better governor than
Oglesby, but in this respect his conduct
could not have been more loudly ap.
plauded by the millions who were
anxiously watching the result.
| feel like complimenting you, Mr.
Editor, for the bold stand you have taken
on the temperance question aud if tine
law and order element don't sustain you
in your effort to cleanse our proud old
capital of its pollution Providence will
certainly scourge them for it. Keep
firing the hot shot into those houses of
dissipation and if the men of Washing
ton county do not respect society enough
to lift their vote, their voice and ever
their muscular powers in defense of the
right, let the women have a chance and
they'll hoist them. / was panied to
know that the Editor had to be assaulted
for raising a warning voice against those
houses ofill fame on the outskirts of town.
They have been unmolested long enough
and have not a single doubt but that
J%onesbOro would be a fine little city had
there not always been about as many
places Of prostitution as of moral and
spiritual growth. A. G.. c.